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Opening statements began Monday in the trial of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger. Guyger is accused in the fatal shooting of her neighbor Botham Jean, when she entered the wrong apartment.

President Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The Bidens call a smear campaign that has been debunked. Here's the backstory.

Labs are churning out more and more synthetic DNA for scientists who want to use it to reprogram cells. Some say the technology has outpaced government safety guidelines put in place a decade ago.

Trump's speech comes as his administration confronts foreign policy challenges in the Middle East and a growing political scandal in Washington.

The battle between management and musicians, which reached a low point with a June lockout by management, ended Monday with the ratification of a new one-year contract.

Low- and middle-income nations are still tens of billions of dollars a year short for recovery from the increasing number of disasters, according to a new report.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a superstar of the pre-rock era, traveling the country in a customized bus and performing for tens of thousands, but never got press to match her stardom. What if she had?

Young people are taking center stage in the fight against climate change.

The Trump administration threatens to cut federal highway dollars for California over air pollution.

Smith's musical career sometimes threatens to overshadow her accomplishments in other creative fields, but every page in this book reminds us that she is an accomplished novelist, essayist and poet.

Amazon is opening new stores — in the real world. And in true Big Tech fashion the experience is meant to emphasize convenience. All you need to do is walk in, grab your stuff, and go.

An unprecedented legal battle against the regime is playing out in European courts, where large refugee communities and prosecutors can bring cases even for suspected crimes committed abroad.

Recorded after a traumatic period in the singer's life, Gloria Gaynor's disco hit quickly found its true audience: LGBT communities, survivors of domestic violence and others pushed aside by society.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Instagram head Adam Mosseri about the lessons he learned about social media abuses while in charge of Facebook's News Feed.

Devin Sloane was sentenced to four months in prison and must pay a $95,000 fine and perform 500 hours of community service. He spent $250,000 to get his son accepted into college as a fake athlete.

Four African Americans are suing over a Jim Crow-era election rule that requires statewide officeholders to win a majority of the popular vote and at least 62 of 122 Mississippi state house districts.

This month, our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles is thinking about how hard it is to race through a series — as her son did with The Last Kids on Earth — and have to wait for the next book.

Average SAT scores for the Charlotte region's class of 2019 ranged from 1240 at Providence High, a large public school in southeast Charlotte, to 861 at…

The Trump administration releases a memo of a call between President Trump and Ukraine's leader. A big question: did Trump pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate a political opponent?

Flavored e-cigarettes are the majority of Juul's sales, but agreeing to stop fighting the Trump administration's regulations may fend off a move to pull Juul products from the market altogether.